What to Do If Phones Fill up with Photos 13 May 2015, Byanick Jesdanun

Review: What to do if phones fill up with photos 13 May 2015, byAnick Jesdanun

With Flickr's app for iPhones, iPads and Android devices, old and new images alike are automatically copied to your online account, so you can delete the original files from your phone. You'll still be able to edit and share images through Flickr's app, and you can retrieve the originals anytime.

Meanwhile, Flickr's software for Mac and Windows computers will continually scan and upload images, including ones you add later.

Regardless of the source, all photos and videos are viewable in one collection through a Web browser or Flickr's mobile app. The newest images are on In this Dec. 7 2014 file photo, Houston Texans fan Erick top, but you can use Flickr's smart sorting tools Salgado takes a photo with his cell phone of his brother under its "Magic View." Software analyzes and Andres Salgado, left, and his cousin Victor Ticas, right, categorizes images based on what's in them, such before the start of an NFL football game against the as food and flowers. A search tool lets you filter by Jacksonville Jaguars, in Jacksonville, Fla. Yahoo's Flickr such attributes as colors in the picture and the and Apple's iCloud Photo Library will automatically image's orientation. transfer photos and videos to your online account, so you get a backup and more space on your device. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton, File) To free up space, you need to delete files from your phone after getting them to Flickr, which means keeping track of which ones have already been transferred. Also, while Flickr can categorize people Shoot enough photos and videos, and your phone shots based on whether they contain kids or will eventually fill up. groups, it doesn't do face detection. You can't pull up photos of just your mom or your best friend. It isn't always possible to add storage, and it isn't easy to move your vast collection elsewhere to free Flickr is still rolling out the features to all of its up space. New services from Yahoo and Apple can users. I've encountered some hiccups, including help by automatically moving your photos and videos not uploading consistently. videos online. And after a few days, Flickr still hasn't finished ___ transferring all of my photos. If your collection is sizable like mine, it can take days or weeks. YAHOO'S FLICKR Get Flickr's app from your phone's app store. Go to Flickr offers virtually unlimited online storage for flickr.com/tools/downloadmac for the Mac software free—1 terabyte, or as Yahoo puts it, about five and flickr.com/tools/downloadwindows for photos a day for the next 60 years. New tools from Windows. Yahoo automate image transfers. ___

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APPLE'S ICLOUD PHOTO LIBRARY other Google services. Amazon's Cloud Drive with unlimited photo storage is $12 a year—waived for This is Apple's way of unifying your photo collection members of its $99-a-year Prime service. It's $60 a online. It works with Apple's Photos app for year if you want unlimited videos, too. organizing and editing those images on Mac and mobile devices. With all of these services, images are kept private—for your eyes only—until you specify Apple keeps a full-resolution version online while otherwise. downgrading what's on your device when space is low. You get the original back when you need it. Flickr is the only one that's truly free and Otherwise, it's not taking up as much space. All this compatible with multiple systems. But if you have is automatic, so you don't need to mess with an Apple device and don't mind paying, iCloud deleting originals and potentially deleting the wrong Photo Library is the easier one to use. ones. © 2015 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. You're limited to transferring images from Apple devices—iPhones, iPads and Macs—though you can view them through a Windows Web browser. You're charged for storage once you hit 5 gigabytes, or roughly 3,000 photos. It costs 99 cents a month for 20 gigabytes, though you might need more if your phone is already full.

Unlike Flickr, Apple can sort images based on specific individuals in them, though it doesn't do object recognition, such as automatically identifying a dog in a picture. Unlike Flickr, Apple can handle RAW file formats favored by many professionals with high-end cameras. It's not an issue, though, if you're just shooting with the phone (unless you have LG's upcoming G4 phone, which can shoot in RAW).

The online photo feature is built into the Photos apps that come with Mac and iOS operating systems. There's no separate download once you have the latest system updates. Just turn the feature on when prompted.

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With Google's Auto Backup and Amazon's Cloud Drive, automatic transfers are limited to Apple and Android phones—not PCs.

Google offers free unlimited storage in a reduced resolution. Otherwise, full-resolution images count toward a free allotment shared with Gmail and

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